Re: portslave

["I. Forbes" <iforbes@zsd.co.za>]

Hello Russell 

I am busy testing a portslave server to replace my old ancient 
Cyclades-Y based terminal server.  

The old one ran mgetty and a pppd patched for radius 
authentication via the radius client library.  The patches have not 
been updated since pppd version 2.2 and the old machine still has 
a 2.0 series kernel.

I am using portslave 2000-12-24 which I built on potato from a deb 
source archive a while back and kernel 2.2.19. It seems to work 
and we will go "live" in a few days.

Do you know of a "potato" deb for the latest version, or if you have 
suggestions on how to get it to compile on potato, please let me 
know.  I ran into problems with an unsupported "debhelper" version. 
 Upgrading debhelper would require upgrading perl, by the time I 
have done that it wont look like a "potato" system any more.

I am also not too sure if I agree with your comments on portslave 
doing everything than mgetty can do.  I had a big battle to get 
portslave to work with my old modem to modem uucp clients.

Regards

Ian



On 5 Oct 2001, at 16:02, Russell Coker wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 17:34, Cathedral wrote:
> > I`m configuring one board cylades cyclom-y and got all the board configured
> > but now i can`t set the modens to work, i`ve configured the radius-client
> > to authenticat on my radius-server and start pppd automaticaly.
> > I have put a line like that on inittab
> >
> >
> > C0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -I ' AT OK AT&W0' ttyC0 (also with /dev/)
> > 9600 -l path_to_radlogin/radlogin
> > The modem answers the line but my win98 clients doesn`t connect do nybody
> > can help me about that,i`m getting really desperated.
> 
> That will only work for terminal authentication (the default for Windows is 
> AutoPPP).  Also are you sure that your "-I" parameter is correct?  The 
> documentation for the version of getty that I use doesn't indicate support 
> for chat scripts.
> 
> Why not use Portslave?  It answers the phone and supports full chatscript 
> functionality for modem configuration etc.  Portslave presents a "login:" 
> prompt and authenticates with a RADIUS server.  It also recognises AutoPPP 
> sequences and runs pppd with a special module so that the pppd will talk to 
> the RADIUS server for authentication.  When the connection is finished the 
> details of bytes and packets transferred will be logged to the RADIUS server.
> 
> Also Portslave supports a variety of options for running ssh, telnet, or 
> rlogin connections based on what the RADIUS server specifies.
> 
> 
> Anything that can be done by getty, mgetty, radius-client, etc can be done 
> better by Portslave.
> 
> Another thing, currently there are two active Portslave developers, me and a 
> Cyclades employee (the Cyclades TS4000 type boxes run a derivative of my 
> 2000-12-25 release).  Run the latest Portslave from unstable and you get most 
> of the features of the high-end Cyclades terminal server boxes, plus some 
> features that haven't yet been copied into the Cyclades tree.
> 
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